Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:46:30 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote:
>
>> > It's a bit late now, but installing a second distro, or a bare stage 3
>> > gentoo, as a dual boot so you can still access the machoine if it
>> > breaks. As an alternative, send the user a GRML CD and get them to
>> > boot that if things go wrong.
>
>> There is no need to drive there or to send a cd. Even with no com_err
>> and no wget, you can still ssh into the machine, so scp should work too.
>
> On this occasion, yes. But as a general CYA policy, as long as the user
> is capable of making a selection from a boot menu, a fallback distro
> would be useful in this situation.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

Yes, it would be helpful. In my case it would need to be configured
for full ssh/noip support, and probably shouldn't be Gentoo based as
this selection wouldn't likely get updated very often and the now far
more restrictive policies on how often Gentoo has to be updated
probably aren't appropriate for this task.

None the less maybe a good thing for me to do would be to do an
install of something like this remotely, test it, and then deal with
system updates later.

Also, as long as ssh isn't harmed I can pretty much scp any package to
the machine and get it working again, albeit with some extra work.
Normally I already do a --fetchonly any time I'm planning on an emerge
-DuN world but if I forgot usually you can still make it work somehow.

Take care,
Mark